Is it wrong....

Is it wrong to mock people who still take the bible word for word as literal truth handed down by god? Who still believe the earth is only 6000 years old? I don't think so.

[kurdt318]

no, infact that is why the U.S. was founded

They should be pushed far into the margins of society.

Originally Posted by kurdt318

no, infact that is why the U.S. was founded

I didn't say persecute, I said mock...as in make fun of and ridicule....

[kurdt318]

NO, infact my social studies teacher believes in the literal interpretation of the bible. She doesn't cut her hair, wear pants, or do alot of weird things, but she also hates the things typical christians do abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage. So for one assignment we had to write a paper about something we truly believe in. I saw my teachers car that afternoon with a bumper sticker proudly displaying "marriage is between a man and a woman". I decided to write my paper on gay marriage. It was a vary well written paper where I clearly stated that I support gay marriage. She took off 5 points for having a "vague topic"

Originally Posted by kurdt318

NO, infact my social studies teacher believes in the literal interpretation of the bible. She doesn't cut her hair, wear pants, or do alot of weird things, but she also hates the things typical christians do abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage. So for one assignment we had to write a paper about something we truly believe in. I saw my teachers car that afternoon with a bumper sticker proudly displaying "marriage is between a man and a woman". I decided to write my paper on gay marriage. It was a vary well written paper where I clearly stated that I support gay marriage. She took off 5 points for having a "vague topic"

I'd be fucking pissed...you should goto the principal and bitch about that one...make sure to point out the bumper sticker on her car. she's biased and took it out on you.

[Hare_Geist]

Originally Posted by chickenpoop

I'd be fucking pissed...you should goto the principal and bitch about that one...make sure to point out the bumper sticker on her car. she's biased and took it out on you.

Ditto. You may have been goading her, but she shouldn't of done that (plus I really dislike the idea of marriage being between man and woman only).

[AngryFemme]

Originally Posted by kurdt318

NO, infact my social studies teacher believes in the literal interpretation of the bible. She doesn't cut her hair, wear pants, or do alot of weird things, but she also hates the things typical christians do abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage.

I am just dumbfounded to learn that a teacher would even discuss personal views like that with one (or more) of their students. I don't believe in depersonalizing an instructor that you spend several hours of your life with each week in school, and it's good to learn certain things about people in order to be able to relate to them more - but did her students really need to know where she stood on those certain issues?

She should spend more time doing what the state/private institution pays her to do while she's at work, which is to teach social studies. Save her opinions for discussion with her peers, on her time.

Take it all the way to the school board, kurdt. Stir some shit up.

Originally Posted by chickenpoop

Is it wrong to mock people who still take the bible word for word as literal truth handed down by god? Who still believe the earth is only 6000 years old? I don't think so.

I would say it is wrong to mock them (although, I'm guilty of doing just that!). This world is all about perspective, and those who would choose to push against the majority and live in a world of faith are entitled to do so.

Originally Posted by CatharticWeek

I would say it is wrong to mock them (although, I'm guilty of doing just that!). This world is all about perspective, and those who would choose to push against the majority and live in a world of faith are entitled to do so.

I agree.

However, I have been attacked for not believing in things that Christians do, so if they want that respect it must be mutual.

I have trouble being friends with someone who deep down inside believes that I should burn in hell.

i do as a personal choice to make myself feel better and to cope with the fact that there is no afterlife.

Of course its not, mocking people who believe what the bible says is true is like mocking people who think that they have super powers because they can light gasoline on fire.

[inuteroteen]

It is comparable to a toddler taking a Bernstein Bears book and taking it entirely literally. Sure it has some morals, but bears can't talk. These fundies are clueless, just ask the people who wrote the book they're quoting, the Jews.

I point out the logical fallacies associated with their religion. It passes the time, and I like to have potentially life-changing debates with folks.

Some don't even make it to the point where I'm quoting scripture when they take a swing at me.

Making fun of them only gets so far, but taking them apart on a base level is where you should be looking.

Originally Posted by CatharticWeek

I would say it is wrong to mock them (although, I'm guilty of doing just that!). This world is all about perspective, and those who would choose to push against the majority and live in a world of faith are entitled to do so.

the problem is the majority are the ones who favor faith

We are all members of the free world. FUCK anyone who would deny me the right to mock or criticize anyone else. We are all flawed and we should all be constantly reminded.

ESPECIALLY fundamentalist wastes of skin.

[AngryFemme]

It's not like skin is in short supply or anything.

Waste of their time - maybe. Waste of skin? Nah.

Nah its not wrong, its your opinion.

I used to think it was okay to bash Mormons, due to their completely ungrounded beliefs regarding Jesus sailing to America and setting up a tribe of traveling Israelites. I figured that since ol' Joe Smith was such a con man, it was okay to bash their faith structure.

The same applied for astrologists, psychics, etc.

Then there were those types of Christians, like the OP was talking about. Contradictions and such an immense lack of evidence, made it okay in my mind to think these people were fools.

Then one day, it hit me. Christianity and religion in general is completely full of contradictions and immense lack of evidence. It doesn't matter if they believe a God created them, or that they evolved from pubic hair left by Aliens from the Planet X. It's all an equal crock of shit... and the only thing that Christianity has working for it is two thousand years of tradition and a history of genius marketing techniques.

So to answer your question... yes. It is okay to bash die hard Christians. But if you're not bashing the moderate Christians, or people of any other religious, metaphysical faith, regardless of popularity or social acceptance... then it makes you out to be one huge hypocrite!

Christianity does not deserve a pedestal above the other faiths of the world. Even the "insane" ones.